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I used to do a lot of Hypercard

I used to do a lot of Hypercard. Never tried Livecode. Just looking at their site and their pricing model, I'm curious, do you actually have to get their approval / notify them for every app you develop and where it gets released? I can't imagine spending the time to adopt a language that was controlled by one company that way. Learned my lesson with Flash AS3, but at least Adobe didn't care what you made with it or try to put their hand in your revenue stream.

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WillAdamsHN

As a 128K Mac owner who bought Microsoft's BASIC for the Mac, this still makes me angry. Then Apple released HyperCard and that was nice, until they dropped it. Then Runtime Revolution was released, and I found it quite nice to use, then they opensourced it as Livecode and I pledged for that, then they quit supporting the Community Edition and closed the code again (anyone know if anyone is making progress on getting this to compile/work/install?). These days I just use Python, but I'd really like to see a nice option for GUI development.

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No idea what it's like now. Maybe try HyperNext Studio? https://tigabyte.com/

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beagle3HN

John Earnest’s “Decker” is basically HyperCard, open source, free, multiple implementation (for web in JS and also native cross platform SDL+C). The language is not AppleTalk, but one called Lil - nicer, IMHO. It captures old HyperCard magic and aesthetics. Give it a try.

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